Clothes-drier



(No Model.)

S. T. HOLLISTER.

CLOTHES DRIER.

Patented June 9, 1896. I

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ATTORNE Y5 UNITED STATES PATENT SEBASTIAN T. I-IOLLISTER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561,664, dated June 9, 1896.

Application filed June 28, 1895.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SnBAsTIAN T. HOLLIS- TER, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Drier, of which the followin g is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention. relates to certain improvements in clothesdriers, and has for its object to provide a device of this character of a simple and inexpensive nature, which shall be especially adapted for use indoors for dryin g clothes and for other household purposes.

The invention contemplates certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of the parts of the improved clothes-drier whereby certain important advantages are attained, and the device is made simpler and better adapted for use than other similar driers heretofore employed, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the claim.

Reference is to he had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a general view drawn to a small scale, showing an ordinary kitchen-range boiler with my improved clothes-drying attachment applied thereto for use; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the device detached and drawn to a larger scale.

The clothes-drier is constructed in the form of an attachment to be applied to a rangeboiler or the like, as seen in Fig. 1, and consists of a band 1, of sheet metal of suitable dimensions and strength, one end of which is provided with a reduced portion or tongue 2, the other end of said band being provided with a slot 3, formed to receive said tongue 2, as clearly seen in Fig. The body portion of the band 1 is provided with a series of transverse grooves or shallow bends 4:, across each of which is formed a series of cuts or slits 5, extending parallel to each other longitudinally of the hand, there being, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2, four of these cuts 5 extending across each groove or bend d. The metal of the band 1, between alternate pairs of the cuts or slits 5, is bent outwardly in the opposite direction to the bend 4: in the band 1, as

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clearly seen at G in the drawings, whereby pockets are formed between said bent-out portions 6 and the bodyl, adapted to receive and hold the shanks of hooks or equivalent supporting devices.

The hooks or supporting devices maybe of any desired form, or different forms may be employed on each band 1 for supporting different articles.

The form of the hook or supporting device is seen in Fig. This hook 10 is formed from a piece of spring-wire having its ends bent substantially parallel, as seen at 11, and provided with angular upwardly and down wardly extending shanks 12, adapted to engage the respective upper and lower pockets of the band 1, being held in engagement therewith by means of the elasticity of the spring-wire of which the hooks are composed.

The combined length of the shanks 12 of the hooks 10 is greater than the distance between the adjacent or inner ends of the pockets with which they engage. In placing the hooks in position the portions 11 thereof are bent toward each other until they are slightly crossed, as indicated in dotted lines at in Fig. 2, after which the ends of the shanks are inserted in the inner ends of the pockets in the band.

In using the device the band is passed around the range-boiler, as seen in Fig. 1, and when adjusted to the proper elevation the tongue 2 is inserted through the slot 3 and bent over, as seen in Fig. i, so as to lock said band securely in place on the boiler. The hooks or supporting devices are then inserted in the pockets in the band 1, and will serve to support the articles to be dried closely against the side of the range-boiler, so that a uniform regulated heat is applied to said articles for drying them, and as this heat cannot exceed that of the water in the rangeboiler it is evident that there willbe no danger of the articles being burned or scorched by excessive heat while being dried.

The construction of the device as above described is extremely siinple and inexpensive, and affords a convenient means for drying articles artificially within the house without the danger of burning or scorching the same. The hooks or supporting devices are also adapted to be swung sidewise against the band 1 when not desired for use, so as to take up as little space as possible.

It will be evident from the above description of my improvements that some change may bemade therein without material departure from the principles of my invention, and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise form of the device herein shown.

Having thus described my invention; I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A clothes-drier comprising a sheet-metal band having its ends provided with reciprocal fastening devicesand having pockets formed in it and arranged in pairs, the pockets of each pair being alined with each other transversely of the band, and a hook of springwire having its ends arranged adjacent and bent in opposite directions, said bent ends of each hook being provided with shanks arranged to engage the pockets of one pair and being held therein by the elasticity of the body of the hook, the combined length of the shanks of each hook being greater than the distance between the adjacent ends of the pockets with which they en gage substan tially as set forth.

SEBASTIAN T. HOLLISTER.

lVitnesses:

ALFRED LURCOTT, C. SEDGWICK. 

